1To James Madison from James H. Blake, 4 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
...(ca. 1792–1820), son of Charles Carroll of Belle Vue in Maryland, served as Henry Clay’s secretary during the Anglo-American negotiations at Ghent and carried to Washington the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812. In 1818 President James Monroe appointed Charles Carroll to be land register for Howard County, Missouri Territory, and it was there that Henry Carroll was murdered in...
2To James Madison from Thomas L. McKenney, 4 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785–1859) of Maryland, a veteran of the War of 1812, was appointed by JM superintendent of the Indian trade in 1816 and served until 1822. McKenney edited a newspaper, the
3To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
...school societies. He was an early supporter of the University of Virginia and served on its board of visitors from 1819 to 1852. David Watson, a 1797 graduate of the College of William and Mary and veteran of the War of 1812, was a lawyer who represented Louisa County in the Virginia General Assembly (Malcolm H. Harris,
4To James Madison from William Bainbridge, 27 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
William Bainbridge (1774–1833) was a U.S. naval officer who saw service in the Quasi-War, the war against the Barbary states, and the War of 1812.
5To James Madison from Charles Valérie de Perron, 22 June 1817 (Madison Papers)
Winfield Scott (1786–1866) entered the U.S. Army in 1808 as a captain and fought with such distinction in the War of 1812 that he was promoted to major general. In 1815 he went to Europe to study military methods, returning to New York City in 1816. His subsequent career included command of the U.S. Army, the successful conduct......with France, the war with Tripoli, and the War of 1812. In the...
6To James Madison from Richard Bland Lee, 2 July 1817 (Madison Papers)
...Richard Bland Lee (1761–1827) was a Federalist congressman from Virginia, 1789–95. In 1815 he moved from his plantation, Sully, to Washington and in 1816, JM appointed him commissioner of claims for property destroyed in the War of 1812. He became judge of the Orphans’ Court in the District of Columbia in 1819 and held that post until his death.
7To James Madison from James Monroe, 27 July 1817 (Madison Papers)
...several thousand acres near Watertown in 1799. In 1809 he began what was to become a distinguished military career when he was appointed to command a militia regiment. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, he was a brigadier general of the New York militia, in which capacity he organized the successful defense of Sackets Harbor in 1813. Commissioned brigadier general in the U.S. Army in...
8To James Madison from Armistead T. Mason, 15 September 1817 (Madison Papers)
...Mason (1787–1819), son of Virginia senator Stevens Thomson Mason and grandson of George Mason, was a graduate of the College of William and Mary who rose to become a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the War of 1812. He served in the U.S. Senate, 1816–17, and died in a duel with his brother-in-law, John Mason McCarty, at Bladensburg, Maryland.
9To James Madison from James Monroe, 24 November 1817 (Madison Papers)
John Caldwell Calhoun (1782–1850) was a South Carolina congressman, 1811–17, who strongly supported JM’s administration during the War of 1812. His terms of service included secretary of war, 1817–25, vice president, 1825–32, the U.S. Senate, 1832–43, secretary of state, 1844–45, and again in the U.S. Senate, 1845 until...
10To James Madison from Charles J. Ingersoll, 25 December 1817 (Madison Papers)
...histories, and political pamphlets. Active in state and local politics, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1813–15 and 1841–49, and as U.S. district attorney, 1815–29. His history of the War of 1812 was first announced as a three-volume work,
11To James Madison from Samuel Dana, 6 February 1818 (Madison Papers)
For the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, established in 1792, and its revitalization after the War of 1812, see Tamara Plakins Thornton,
12To James Madison from John S. Barbour, 18 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
...for eight terms between 1813 and 1834, and in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1823–33. He was a cousin of James and Philip Pendleton Barbour and served as an aide to Gen. William Madison in the War of 1812. Barbour’s eulogy of JM, delivered at Culpeper Court House on 18 July 1836, was published in the
13To James Madison from James Monroe, 5 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
...speaker. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania in 1808 and served two subsequent terms, leaving office in 1817, when he was elected to the state senate. A Jeffersonian Republican, he was a strong supporter of JM and the War of 1812.
14To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 22 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
Joseph Bloomfield (1753–1823), a veteran of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, was governor of New Jersey, 1801–2 and 1803–1812, until JM appointed him brigadier general in the U.S. Army in 1812. He subsequently represented a New Jersey district in Congress, 1817–21 (
15To James Madison from James Taylor, 7 November 1818 (Madison Papers)
...Stewart Todd (1791–1871), the son of Thomas Todd and the son-in-law of former Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby, was a graduate of the College of William and Mary, a lawyer, and a veteran of the War of 1812. He served as U.S. minister first to Colombia, 1820–24, and later to Russia, 1841–46 (
16To James Madison from Richard Rush, 13 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
...the United States–Canadian border from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. A temporary agreement was reached over mutual settlement of the Pacific Northwest. Finally, the question of compensation for slaves taken by the British during the War of 1812 was placed in arbitration. For a full description of the negotiation, see Powell,
17To James Madison from James Riley, 19 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
James Riley (1777–1840) was a Connecticut-born sea captain and veteran of the War of 1812 whose brig
18To James Madison from James Monroe, 21 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
William King (1768–1852), half-brother of Rufus King, was a merchant, shipbuilder, and Massachusetts state politician from Bath (District of Maine). He served in the War of 1812 as a militia major general, and after July 1813 as a colonel in the U.S. Army. King was an active supporter of Maine’s secession from Massachusetts and served as the new state’s first governor, 1820...
19To James Madison from William Eustis, 27 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
William Gray (1750–1825), a prosperous merchant of Salem, and later Boston, and a state politician, vigorously supported JM’s administration and the War of 1812. He was elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts as a Republican in 1810 and 1811. In 1816 he was unanimously elected president of the Boston branch of the Second Bank of the United States, and he served in that...
20To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 2 February 1819 (Madison Papers)
in those workings of things, which produced, and gave complexion to the conduct of our government, in the war of 1812. Mr. Jefferson & you will perceive, that I have, tho I trust innocently, insinuated much that concerns those things, of which you and he were “
21To James Madison from William Shaler, 28 March 1819 (Madison Papers)
William Montgomery Crane (1784–1846) entered the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1799 and served in the Quasi-War, the War of 1812, and in the Mediterranean in the postwar period, rising successively through the ranks. He was commodore of the Mediterranean squadron, 1827–29.
22To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 10 July 1819 (Madison Papers)
John Chew, a former Virginia military accountant, in November 1815 was appointed commissioner for the settlement of accounts between the United States and the state of Virginia arising from the War of 1812 (“Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia … [1816],”
23To James Madison from Edward Coles, 20 July 1819 (Madison Papers)
Moses Green (d. 1856), a planter who lived at Liberty Hall in Culpeper County, Virginia, was adjutant general of the Virginia militia during the War of 1812. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1799–1802, and 1809–11 (Jones,
24To James Madison from Richard Bland Lee, 2 August 1819 (Madison Papers)
48467). Lee wrote of JM and the outcome of the War of 1812: “Thus President Madison had the happiness, in retiring from office, of leaving his country at peace abroad, united at home, with increased character, and irradiated with glory” (p. 14).
25To James Madison from Spencer Roane, 22 August 1819 (Madison Papers)
, 1804–45, and a political force for the Jeffersonian Republicans and later the Democratic Party in Virginia. He supported JM and served briefly in the War of 1812. Ritchie edited the Washington, D.C.,
26To James Madison from James Monroe, 10 September 1819 (Madison Papers)
...1750–1828) was a Revolutionary War veteran, governor of South Carolina, 1787–89, minister to Great Britain, 1792–96, a member of Congress, 1797–1801, and a major general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 (
27To James Madison from Clarkson Crolius, 29 November 1819 (Madison Papers)
Clarkson Crolius (1773–1843) was a potter and stoneware manufacturer, a veteran of the War of 1812, and a New York state politician. In 1819 Crolius was grand sachem of the Tammany Society (William C. Ketchum Jr.,
28To James Madison from Francis Preston, 30 January 1820 (Madison Papers)
...Representatives, 1793–97, and represented Washington County, Virginia, in the House of Delegates, 1812–14, and in the state Senate, 1817–20. He rose to the rank of major general in the state militia during the War of 1812 (
29To James Madison from James Monroe, 5 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
...United States in 1803. He stood as the Federalist vice presidential candidate in 1804 and 1808, and as the Federalist presidential candidate in 1816. As U.S. senator, 1813–24, he opposed JM’s administration and the War of 1812; later, he opposed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and was outspoken in his attacks on the extension of slavery (
30To James Madison from James Barbour, 10 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
...the U.S. House of Representatives, 1797–1801, the Massachusetts legislature, 1802–17, and the U.S. Senate, 1817–22. An active Federalist, he was a leader in the opposition to JM’s administration and the War of 1812, as well as spokesman for the Hartford Convention of 1814. In the debates over the Missouri question, he took a leading part against the extension of slavery into the territories.